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the wood of which is very hard ; they were well 

 poHshed and sharpened at one end : some were near 

 twenty feet long, though not more than three fingers 

 thick : they had also a weapon, which was both club 

 and pike, made of the same wood, about seven feet 

 long ; this also was well polished, and sharpened at 

 one end into a broad point. As a guard against 

 these weapons, when they attack each other, they 

 have matts folded up many times, which they place 

 under their clothes from the neck to the waist : the 

 weapons themselves indeed are capable of much less 

 mischief than those of the same kind which we saw 

 at the other islands, for the lances were there pointed 

 with the sharp bone of the stingray that is called the 

 sting, and the pikes were of much greater weight. 

 The other things that we saw here were all superior 

 in their kind to any we had seen before ; the cloth 

 was of a better colour in the dye, and painted with 

 greater neatness and taste ; the clubs were better cut 

 and polished, and the canoe, though a small one, was 

 very rich in ornament, and the carving was executed 

 in a better manner : among other decorations pecu- 

 liar to this canoe, was a line of small white feathers, 

 which hung from the head and |stern on the outside, 

 and which, when we saw them, were thoroughly 

 wetted by the spray. 



Tupia told us, that there were several islands lying 

 at difterent distances, and in different directions from 

 this, between the south and the north west ; and that, 

 at the distance of three days' sail to the north-east, 

 there was an island called Manua, Bird-island : he 

 seemed, however, most desirous that we should sail 

 to the westward, and described several islands in 

 that direction which he said he had visited : he told 

 us that he had been ten or twelve days in going 

 thither, and thirty in coming back, and that the Pa- 

 hie in which he had made the voyage, sailed much 

 faster than the ship : reckoning his Pahie therefore 

 to go at the rate of forty leagues a day, which, from 



